Caroline Weber is an associate professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she specializes in eighteenth-century French literature and history. She received her Ph.D. at Yale and her B.A. at Harvard. Along with Queen of Fashion, her publications include a book on the Reign of Terror; a collected volume of essays on French revolutionary culture; articles in leading academic journals; and essays in "Vogue" and "The New York Times." She is currently at work on a new book project, Coco at the Ritz: Gabrielle Chanel and the Nazi Occupation. She lives in New York City with her husband.